The Senate Indian Affairs Committee held a confirmation hearing this afternoon for Kevin Washburn to be Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. The hearing lasted about an hour. Audio can be downloaded from the Indianz.Com SoundCloud or you can listen below:...

Forrest Cuch, the executive director of the economic development corporation for the Ute Tribe of Utah, resigned unexpectedly this week, The Vernal Express reports. Cuch, a tribal member, joined the Ute Tribal Enterprises in July 2011. He said he left...

The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians has submitted a land-into-trust application to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The tribe wants 170 acres in trust for various economic development projects, The Traverse City Ticker reports. That could include...

"In our Samala language, the words “kiyushk’al” mean “we are strong.” It’s an apt theme for our annual Chumash pow-wow — which next month will draw in hundreds of dancers and drummers from native nations across the United States and...

The House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs held a hearing this morning to discuss taxation of per capita payments. The hearing lasted about an hour and 13 minutes. Audio can be downloaded from the Indianz.Com SoundCloud or you...

"Photovoltaic power and solar water heating have been warmly embraced by an increasingly wide demographic within the United States, including Native Americans. American Indian groups across the country have been turning to solar energy as way to power operations and...

Kevin Washburn will go before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee this afternoon for his confirmation hearing as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. Washburn, a member of the Chickasaw Nation, was nominated by President Barack Obama on August 2. If confirmed...

Markwayne Mullin, the Republican candidate for Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional district, continues to maintain he didn't know he benefited from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Two plumbing businesses owned by Mullin received about $370,000 in ARRA funds through contracts from...

Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas said it has taken “corrective actions” to address problems with its athletics program. Haskell has been suspended by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for "violations involving ineligible players." There's also been an investigation...

"In English grammar we find pronouns for first person (“I’), second person (“you”), and third person plural (“we”). I’d like to add focus on the colonizing possessive adjective “our,” which occurs when an Indian person uses the “we” or “our,”...

Chris Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya who was killed in an attack on September 11, was a member of the Chinook Nation of Washington. "To all of the Chinook members and all the friends of the Chinook Nation...